Pin-ticket.



L. BAUM.

PIN TICKET.

- APPLIOATIOH FILED NOV. 22, 1908. 972,791. Patented 0et.11,1910.

'11. an 1 J v UNITED STATE PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS BAUM, OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO A. KIMBALL COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PIN-TICKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 11, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS BAUM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pin-Tickets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved pin ticket for use on articles of merchandise, such as cloths, fabrics and other goods that reigiire to be marked.

ne object of the invention is to provide a paper or card board pin-ticket which in the finished condition as an article of sale shall have the Wire parts in flat contact with the surface of the card-board, substantially in the same plane, and thereby enable a number of the wired tickets to be packed closely to ether in a box without liability of protru in ends of the wires becoming tangled toget er and making it annoying to untangle them.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,-

Figure 1 is a front view of the pin-ticket ready to be attached to the goods. Fig. 2 is a back view of the same. Fig. 3 shows the first steps taken in attaching the pinticket to cloths or fabrics. Fig. 4: is a ver' tical section down through the center of the pin-ticket and cloth shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a front View of the pin-ticket and cloth, showing the pin-ticket when attached. Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the pin-ticket when attached to the cloth.

The ticket should be made of light-weight card board, technically paper, and may have any preferred shape, in the present instance it is rectangular; the front of the ticket is designated by the letter, a, and the back by the letter, 5. A single piece of suitable wire' is provided and specially formed and constructed and applied to the paper or card board ticket to eifect an improvement in the attachment of the ticket to the goods.

The piece of wire when applied to the ticket, and before being attached to the goods, has the shape shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

This card board ticket has on its front face a wire cross-bar, 2, at each end of which the wire passes through the card board to the back face; then on said back face at each end of the cross-bar, the wire is bent to form a doubled end, 3; "these two doubled ends are parallel and both project upward from the cross-bar. One strand of each of the said doubled ends, 3, projects .straight downward in alinement therewith. This is the finished article ready to be applied to any cloth goods.

The cross-bar, 2, is at a right angled position with respect to the two doubled ends, 8, and the straight prongs, l, and is located intermediate of the ends of said parts. As the doubled wire ends and the two prongs in the article when ready for sale, all lay fiat and in contact with the back of the ticket, they serve to stay and support the paper or card and prevent it from bending and also enable a number of the articles to be packed in a box without liability of the prongs becoming entangled with other wire parts.

The crimped part, 4, in each prong comprises a number of serpentine bends any one of which may serve to facilitate the equal bending of the two wire prongs at the points, (Z, and, c, When applying the ticket to goods. r

When it is desired to attach the pinticket to cloth or other fabric the finished device in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 should be laid with the front face, a, of the ticket in contact with the cloth, 0, and the ends of the two prongs, 1, 1, are to be stuck through the cloth at the points, d, and then again stuck through the cloth at the points, e, back to the first side of the cloth, and then the two ends of the wire prongs are bent upward toward the ticket and thereby said ends form two hooks, 5, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The paper or card ticket is then turned away from the cloth, as indicated by the broken line are of a circle in Fig. 5, and folded downward by bending the two wire prongs at the point, 6; this brings the front face, a, of the ticket outermost, as seen in Figs. 5 and 6, and completes the operation of attaching the pin ticket. When the paper ticket is thus turned or folded downward it covers the two extremities or hook-point ends, 5, of the wire prongs and conceals said ends from View. As the two point ends of the wire are now between the paper ticket and the cloth, said ends can notstick a persons fingers,nor will these ends accidentally engage any other parts of the cloth when handling the latter. This paper ticket willthus be very securely fastened to the cloth;

it may be used on any fabric either fine or coarse. I

The ends of the two prongs may be cut off square, as shown in Fig. 1, or may be tapered something like a needle or pin, as preferred; my invention is 'not limited to having the prong-ends ineither form mentioned.

Having thus described my invention What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

Apin ticket comprising a card-board and a single piece of Wire consisting of a crossbar at the front of the card-board, and at the back of the card-board the said Wire forming' at each end of said cross-bar a doubledend-b0th doubled-ends projecting upward from the cross-bar, and one strand of the Wire of each doubled-end extending down- Ward below said cross-bar and in straight alinement With its doubled-end.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

LOUIS BAUM. Witnesses:

M. B. ODONNEL J. M. TAGGART. 

